- About
- The Science
- CLIVAR Frontiers and Imperatives
- Frontier 1: Anthropogenic Climate Change
- Frontier 2: Decadal variability, predictability and prediction
- Frontier 3: Intra-seasonal and seasonal predictability and prediction
- Imperative 1: Improved atmosphere and ocean component models of Earth System Models
- Imperative 2: Data synthesis, analysis, reanalysis and uncertainty
- Imperative 3: Ocean observing system
- Imperative 4: Capacity building
- CLIVAR Endorsed Projects & Activities
- CLIVAR Objectives
- CLIVAR Successes
- CLIVAR Frontiers and Imperatives
- Panels and Working Groups
- Global
- PAGES/CLIVAR Intersection Working Group
- CCl/CLIVAR/JCOMM Expert Team on Climate Change Detection and Indices (ETCCDI)
- Global Synthesis and Observations Panel (GSOP)
- WGCM/CLIVAR Working Group on Ocean Model Development (WGOMD)
- Working Group on Seasonal to Interannual Prediction
- Working Group on Coupled Modelling (WGCM)
- Regional
- National Programmes
- Global
- Extremes Cross-Cut
- Calendar
- Resources
- Publications
CLIVAR Upper Ocean Thermal DACs
Marine Environmental Data Service, Fisheries and Oceans, Canada (MEDS)
Principal Contact: Bob Keeley
Email: keeley@meds-sdmm.dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Website: http://www.meds-sdmm.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/meds/Prog_Int/WOCE/WOCE_UOT/UOT_e.htm
Global Subsurface Data Center, IFREMER, France
Principal Contact: Loic Petit de la Villeon
Email: Loic.Petit.De.La.Villeon@ifremer.fr
Website: http://www.ifremer.fr/sismer/program/gsdc/homepage.htm
Responsibilities: During WOCE the Upper Ocean Thermal (UOT) Data Assembly Centre (DAC) was a distributed body with several components working in partnership with the IOC/WMO sponsored Global Temperature Salinity Profile Program (GTSPP).
The job of assembling the data sent either over the Global Telecommunications System (GTS) or coming in delayed mode is the task for Canada's Marine Environmental Data Service (MEDS), IFREMER of France, and the U.S. National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC).
Three science centres, the Joint Australian Facility for Ocean Observation System (JAFOOS) in Australia (responsible for Indian Ocean data), Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) of the US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (responsible for Atlantic Ocean data) and Scripps Institute of Oceanography (responsible for Pacific Ocean data) in the US carry out scientific quality assessment of the data and return their results to the main archive at the NODC.
